WP: "Andre the Giant, The Honky Tonk Man, Hulk Hogan, The Junkyard Dog and Nikolai Volkoff: If you were a child of the 1980s and loved wrestling, you'll remember these wrestling superstars. Back then, wrestling was becoming popular after growing out of a territorial system and into something of a nationwide phenomenon. Before it was referred to as "sports entertainment," wrestling was a real sport with some larger-than-life personalities. Story lines were simple, wrestlers had epic feuds without resorting to gimmicky matches, and it was abundantly clear who was good and who wasn't. Some fans yearn for these simpler years, for a time before the name change lawsuit that forced the WWF to become the WWE."
The HITC Tech team write about what they're playing this weekend, including XCOM: Enemy Unknow, Banished, and L.A. Noire.
Christopher Buffa (Prima Games): News of Ultimate Warrior Jim Hellwig’s death left millions of wrestling fans, including myself, in shock. I never knew the man, but I loved the character. His electric entrance, running to the ring full blast and shaking the ropes, was adrenaline personified, while the outfit (multicolored face paint, neon tassels, different colored straps for his title belts) embodied the 90s. Critics often remark that his promos were illogical, but to kids, they made perfect sense. Fill the spaceship with rocket fuel? Trampled by elephants? Might as well be Shakespeare to a nine-year-old.
Despite what Wee Jimmy Krankie and the agony aunt section of men’s magazines might say to the contrary, size matters loads. Just ask any of these hulking goliaths. While some giants in popular culture are more concerned with shilling you canned sweetcorn than grinding your bones to make a wholemeal loaf, PlayStation’s gargantuan folk just want to trample, scoff or suplex you. Regardless of whether it’s a fallen god scrapping with his football field-sized granddad or a Skyrim beanpole who can mess you up more than any lag, none of these brutes exactly scream BFG.
